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A  TREATISE 

ON  THE 

Renewal  and  Rejuvenation  of  the  Physical  Body 

WITH 

AFFIRMATIONS 

For  Use  in  the  Work 

BY 

JESSIE  MILLARD  ENGLISH 


GEORGE   P.  SIKES,  Publisher       . 

1367  Fifth  Street       %,, 
San  Diego,  California 


Copyright 

By  JESSIE  MILLARD  ENGLISH 
1919 


Three 


JESSIE  M1LLARD  ENGLISH 

A  mocking'  bird  lilts  on  the  tree-top  yonder. 
And  thus  I  interpret  the  carol  he  sings, 
As  he  tilts  there  trilling  and  thrilling  with  gladness — 
The  oneness  of  Infinite  Life  in  all  things. 

His  body  sways  with  his  bliss  ecstatic, 
While  with  head  uplifted  and  vibrant  throat 
He  sings  of  his  oneness  with  all  things  living 
And  flings  forth  his  joy  in  exultant  note. 


A  humming  bird  poised  o'er  the  honeysuckle 
With  wings  a-shimmer  and  breast  aglow, 
Gives  forth  a  chirp  of  satisfaction,  m 

Which  but  echoes  the  thought  of  the  other,  I  know. 

The  ocean  thunders  and  rants  and  tumbles, 
And  sobs  and  moans  in  the  lap  of  the  land ; 
And  seems  ever  bent  on  imparting  a  message 
To  those  who  will  listen  and  understand. 


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Four  THE  ONE  MESSAGE 


The  rivers,  the  rills  and  the  brooks  all  sing  it; 
Wherever  you  hear  them  just  listen  and  see. 
The  lesson  of  Life  they're  forever  repeating — 
The  oneness  of  all  with  you  and  with  me. 

The  birds  all  sing  it.    The  bees  they  hum  it, 
As  they  dip  for  sweets  in  each  blossom's  throat. 
The  katydids  and  the  crickets  shrill  it — 
Each  in  its  own  peculiar  note. 

The  leaves  of  the  trees  and  the  bushes,  the  flowers, 
The  grasses  that  lean  and  dip  with  the  breeze, 
They  all  seem  telling  the  one  sweet  story 
To  me  that  /  am  at  one  with  these. 

The  beautiful  message  replete  with  meaning, 
A  blessing  brings  to  each  weary  soul. 
It  tells  of  Infinite  Love  and  Wisdom 
That  binds  and  holds  the  Universe  whole. 


Five 


WILL  explain  this  Treatise  as  an  exhaustive  dissertation  upon  Body 
Renewal  with  affirmations  for  use  in  the  same.  I  will  also  explain 
that  while  to  some,  especially  so  to  beginners,  they  may  seem  lengthy 
and  to  needlessly  repeat,  I  have  considered  all  that. 

Being  a  graduate  of  several  of  the  best  schools  of  suggestive 
healing  and  having  done  much  spiritual  healing  through  suggestive 
therapeutics,  I  am  exceedingly  well  acquainted  with  its  methods,  and 
perfectly  well  aware  that  in  all  suggestive  treatment,  by  auto-sug- 
gestion or  other,  this  axiom  holds  good:  "Reiteration  is  the  price  of 
success;" — hence  the  apparently  needless  repetitions. 

I  will  also  add  that  by  use  of  the  methods  herein  given,  I  have 
demonstrated  completely  over  the  results  of  serious  physical  injur- 


ies  of  long  standing,  besides,  the  failure  of  sight,  which  caused  me 
to  wear  glasses  for  the  period  of  five  years,  during  which  I  could 
not,  without  their  aid,  see  to  read  a  single  line  of  a  newspaper  col- 
umn. I  used,  absolutely,  no  other  treatment,  and  I  have  ever  since, 
been  able  to  read  and  sew ;  often  if  I  feel  like  doing  so,  into  the  early 
morning  hours,  without  the  use  of  glasses,  which  I  laid  off  Thanks- 
giving morning,  1909,  and  which  I  have  never  worn  since. 

Many  of  my  friends  know  of  this  and  can  attest  to  the  truth  of 
these  statements. 

When  you  have  made  the  contents  of  this  little  volume  your 
own,  by  study  and  by  practice,  you  will  have  found  the  value  of  its 
methods. 


Seven 


Sinttmstttsr  (fitc. 


I  am  an  individualized  Spirit  —  or  Soul(  designing  and  building 
my  own  body,  which  is  continually  undergoing  change. 

My  body  is  not  /.  It  is  mine.  I  am  not  body.  I  am  Spirit.  My 
body  is  the  outer  expression  of  myself  —  of  the  individualized  Spirit 
or  Soul  which  is  /.  My  body  is  ever  changing.  It  has  undergone 
continuous  change  —  ever  repairing,  renewing,  renovating,  recreating, 
at  the  rate  of  a  complete  body  for  every  year,  ever  since  I  began  to 
express  by  means  of  a  body. 

It  will  continue  to  renew,  just  so  long  as  I  occupy  it. 

/  ant  an  ever  renewing,  ever  unfolding  expression  of  Life,  Wis- 
dom and  Power. 

My  body  is  the  garment,  the  outer  expression  of  the  /,  the  Ego, 
the  Self,  the  Soul,  who  designs  it,  builds  it,  uses  it,  occupies  it. 

.My  body  is  my  manifestation  —  it  is  that  by  means  of  which  I 
manifest,  make  myself  known  to  the  physical  senses  of  those  who  are 
manifesting  upon  the  physical  plane. 

If  I  had  no  body,  I  should  be  a  discarnate,  a  disembodied  Spirit 


Eight  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 


Spirit  with  no  means  of  making  myself  seen,  heard  or  felt,  by 
those  who  sense  by  the  physical  senses,  only. 

As  7  am  the  Life  of  my  body,  I  can  truly  affirm  7  am  Life.  As 
I  'am  the  Health  of  my  body,  I  can  truly  affirm  7  am  Health.  As  7 
am  the  Strength  of  my  body  I  can  truly  affirm  7  am  Strength.  7  am 
Life,  Health,  Strength,  now — this  minute.  If  7  were  gone  from  my 
body,  it  would  be  an  inert  mass,  a  lifeless  lump — So  I  .am  its  Life, 
Health,  Strength.  Being  an  individualized  Spirit  or  Soul,  I  am  wow, 
all  that  the  words  imply.  As  Spirit  is  never  ill,  as  Spirit  is  never 
weak,  7  am  now,  what  I  can  truly  claim  for  Spirit.  7  am  all  that 
Spirit  is. 

7  am  Life,  Health,  Strength,  Ambition,  Activity,  Energy,  Force, 
Vitality,  Vigor,  Vim,  Intelligence,  Intellect,  Wisdom,  Power. 

And  what  7  am  I  express — literally  ex-press — press  out.  into 
form — the  form  which  is  my  body. 

Thus  do  I  express  a  body,  for  my  use. 

As  7  am  the  designer,  as  well  as  the  builder  of  my  body,  7  am 
going  to  build  it  over,  with  better  conditions  than  it  has  had  before. 
I  have  no  power  to  keep  my  body  at  a  standstill.  It  always  has  been 
changed,  all  through,  each  year — in  less  than  one  year.  So,  as  it 
changes,  7  am  going  to  see  that  the  change  is  for  the  better.  7  know 
that  this  is  possible.  I  know  that  7  can  do  this. 

My  body  shall  improve  with  each  successive  renewal. 


7./7M 


BODY  RENEWAL 


Nine 


I  have  a  good  skeleton.    /  will  clothe  it  in  beautiful  new  flesh. 

As  my  flesh  renews  more  rapidly  than  my  bones,  I  shall  expect 
it  to  become  perfect,  at  an  early  date.  That  which  I  expect  to  achieve, 
will  come  true. 

I,  the  Self,  am  perfect,  as  I  am  Spirit 

My  body  is  /  expressed — in  other  words,  it  is  the  expression  of 
the  Spirit,  which  is  7,  and  must  express  perfection.  As  within,  so 
without. 

My  body  of  next  Spring,  Summer,  Autumn  or  Winter  (as  the  case 
may  be)  is  not  yet  builded. 

It  will  be  a  far  better  body  than  is  this  one  of  today. 

It  will  be  the  best  body  that  I  have  yet  worn. 

I  have  always  rebuilt  my  body;  but  have  done  so  unconsciously. 
I  did  not  recognize  my  own  part  in  the  work  of  my  body-building. 

Now  that  I  am  conscious  that  it  is  /  who  design  the  work,  and 
/  who  supervise  it,  7  will  see  that  I  do  a  better  job,  each  time,  than 
ever  before 

I  will  see  that  my  body  grows  more  symetrical  each  time  it  is 
repeated. 

I  will  see  that  my  body  grows  more  erect,  more  elastic,  more  re- 
silient, each  time  it  is  renewed.  I  can  round  out  my  face,  throat 
and  limbs  more  each  time  I  rebuild  them,  thus  perfecting  more  and 
more,  each  time,  as  I  rebuild. 


Ten  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

I  will  do  away  with  all  scars,  all  blemishes,  all  evidences  of  past 
injuries.  I  know  this  can  be  done.  They  are  neither  useful  nor  or- 
namental and  I  positively  refuse  to  perpetuate  them. 

I  will  not  carry  forward,  in  my  body  building  such  useless  marks. 

I  will  not  build  wrinkles,  nor  any  disagreeable  facial  expressions. 
I  will  build  for  symmetry,  for  beauty,  for  elegance,  for  refinement 
of  expression. 

/  am  not  subject  to  parental  limitations,  imposed  at  birth.  I  can 
and  I  will  rise  superior  to  them.  They  grow  less,  as  I  increase  my 
power  to  overcome. 

It  is  by  determined  and  never  yielding  effort,  that  7  am  forming 
habits  in  correct  body-renewal. 

Heredity  has  no  power  to  impose  limitations  upon  me,  for  7  am 
deathless  Spirit.  7  am  a  Soul,  superior  to  any  limitations,  through 
my  consciousness  of  my  oneness  with  The  Infinite — The  Limitless — 
The  Absolute.  This  Infinite,  Limitless  Source  is  the  Life  of  my  life, 
and  I  recognize  it  as  ever  springing  up  within  me — ever  renewed 
and  renewing.  Hence  the  Fountain  of  Eternal  Youth  is  irithin  me. 
(Think  of  a  fountain — ever  up  springing,  ever  rising,  ever  gushing 
forth  anew,  ever  refreshing,  ever  renewing.)  7  am,  or  the  7  am  of 
me,  is  a  fountain  of  Eternal  Youth.  I  receive  by  Divine  influx  or 
Divine  up-rising,  by  Divine  out-flow — the  process  never  ceases.  7  am 


/  JIM          BODY  RENEWAL  /  JIM  Eleven 

ever  f.r-pressing,  or  out-pressing  or  putting  forth  into  outer  expres- 
sion a  newly  built  body. 

My  body  is  in  a  fluidic  state.     It  yields  to  my  thought. 

My  body  is  plastic  and  easily  molded  to  my  plan.  (Think  of 
a  mason  or  plasterer  working  with  cement  or  plaster,  shaping  it  to 
suit  his  own  ideas.) 

As  the  cement  or  plaster  responds  to  the  trowel  which  shakes 
it,  even  so  does  my  body  yield  to  my  thought.  The  workman  directs 
his  trowel  by  his  will,  to  mold  his  material.  So  do  I  direct  my 
tli ought  by  my  -will  to  shape  this  fluidic,  plastic  body  of  mine,  to 
conform  to  my  ideal,  or  plan,  or  pattern,  of  what  I  wish  it  to  be. 

As  the  loaf  of  dough  yields  to  the  shaping  of  my  hands,  so  does 
my  body  yield  to  the  shaping  of  my  thought,  and  thus  is  it  pressed 
out  into  form  or  expressed.  7  by  my  will  direct  my  thought  to  ex- 
press my  body — so  my  body  is  my  expression. 

As  I  think  so  I  build.  My  thought  is  the  agent  used  by  my 
will,  to  fashion  my  body. 

Just  as  1  can,  by  willing  my  hands,  cause  them  to  mold  wax, 
putty  or  day,  to  ccnfcrrn  to  my  design,  held  in  my  Subconscious,  so 
can  1  will  my  thought  to  mold  my  body  to  my  plan  or  pattern  held  in 
my  Subsconscious. 

As  the  flesh  of  my  face,  throat  and  bust,  is  most  easily  molded,  be- 


Twelve  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS.  ETC. 

cause  its  muscles  are  less  tensed  and  so  are  softer,  so  are  they  more 
readily  changed. 

They  are  more  impressionable  and  thus  do  they  undergo  more 
rapid  change  than  do  the  more  highly  tensioned  parts.  Hence,  also, 
is  their  change  more  noticeable.  So  'tis  there  that  I  look  for  quick- 
est results. 

It  is  by  vibration  that  I  produce  changes  in  my  body.  By 
thought,  I  vibrate  at  will,  my  body-substances  to  effect  the  change  I 
desire.  I  cannot  cause  the  renewal  of  my  body,  nor  can  I  check  it. 
It  always  has  been  and  always  is  it  to  be,  so  long  as  I  remain  in 
my  body. 

But  by  using  my  thought  understandingly,  directing  it  by  my 
will,  I  can  consciously  so  vibrate  my  body-substance  as  to  produce 
the  conditions  which  I  wish  to  externalize. 

My  body  is  not  /,  and  yet  it  is  by  my  body  that  /  am  recognized. 
Hence  my  body  must  be  the  product  of  the  Self,  the  Ego,  the  7. 

In  the  past,  and  not  so  long  ago,  I  was  ignorant  of  all  this.  I 
supposed  that,  like  Topsy,  I  "jes  growed. "  I  had  no  idea  that  I 
could  control  the  conditions  of  my  body. 

I  thought  I  had  to  submit,  to  endure,  to  put  up  with  adverse 
conditions;  never  dreaming  that  I  had  anything  to  do  with  my  body 
renewal. 


/  JIM          BODY  RENEWAL          /  AM  Thirteen 

I  did  not  know  that  by  using  the  right  kind  of  thought,  I  could 
overcome  and  transmute  and  transform. 

Now,  I  know  that  I  can  do  so! 

"As  a  man  thinketh  in  his  heart  so  is  he" — in  his  heart,  mind 
you,  in  his  innermost  Self — in  his  Subconscious  Self — the  Self  that 
is  under  the  Conscious  mind — under  the  threshold  of  Consciousness — 
sometimes  called  the  Subliminal — or,  the  mind  beneath  the  threshold 
of  consciousness. 

Now  I  know  that  I  can  build  my  body  to  suit  myself,  in  accord- 
ance with  my  plan,  which  I  hold  in  my  Subconscious — the  plan  or 
ideal  which  I  desire  to  copy,  to  manifest,  in  the  outer  or  physical. 

And  so,  I  literally  think  my  body  into  objectivity.  And  /  am 
an  ever  renewing — ever  unfolding  expression,  of  the  Self  within. 
/  am  my  finer  Self.  /  am  my  higher  Self.  /  am  my  better  Self. 
There  is  more  of  me  than  I  have  ever  yet  expressed.  7  must-  and  I 
will  express  more. 

My  body,  which  is  7  expressed  or  pressed  out  into  form,  must 
express  perfection ;  as  the  7  the  Ego  the  Self  is  perfect. 

My  body  is  all  renewed  in  less  than  one  year. 

So  it  is  less  than  one  year  old. 

Some  portions  of  it  renew  within  a  few  days,  some  within  a 
few  weeks:  others  within  a  few  months:  but  the  body,  as  a  whole, 


Fourteen  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

is  completely  renewed — with  exception  of  enamel  of  the  teeth,  within 
less  than  one  year. 

So,  it  should  be  like  a  child's  body;  and  it  will  be,  when  re- 
newed with  the  right  kind  of  thought  vibrations. 

I  think  my  body  into  Health.  I  think  my  body  into  Form.  I 
think  my  body  into  Symmetry.  I  think  my  body  into  Power. 

As  I  think,  so  I  build.  No  one  can  see  what  I  think,  only  as  he 
can  judge  by  the  results. 

Look  around  you  at  the  people,  and  it  is  easy  to  guess  the  charac- 
ter of  the  thought  that  has  molded  their  bodies. 

Look  at  the  dress,  worn  by  anyone  ,and  'tis  not  difficult  to  real- 
ize that  someone's  thought  planned  it.  Everyone  knows  that  whether 
you  make  an  apron,  or  build  a  barn,  you  first  have  to  have  in  your 
mind,  a  plan,  a  concept,  an  idea,  a  pattern  of  what  you  are  going 
to  make. 

One  instinctively  recognizes  that,  no  matter  what  the  object  built. 
You  will  hear  comments  like  the;  following:  ''The  person  who 
planned  that  house,  certainly  had  very  little  idea  of  conven- 
ience," or,  "I  wonder  what  dressmaker  designed  that  fright,"  or, 
"The  soul  who  conceived  of  that  work  of  art  was  certainly  a  line 
artist,"  etc.,  etc.  Showing  that  we  instinctively  recognize  the  master 
back  of  his  work,  or  the  mind  that  gave  concept  to  the  matter. 


BODY  RENEWAL          /  JIM  Fifteen 


"Back  of  the  canvas  that  throbs,  the  painter  is  hinted  and  hidden. 
Into  the  statue  that  breathes  the  soul  of  the  sculptor  is  bidden." 

I  will  build  no  ugly,  cross,  unpleasant  thoughts  into  expression. 

1  will  not  repeat  the  mistakes  nor  the  blemishes  of  the  past. 

Just  as  plainly  does  the  body  show  forth  the  thought  that 
molded  it. 

As  I  think  so  I  build.  So  I  must  be  very  careful  as  to  the  kind 
of  thought  I  project  into  objectivity.  /  am  accountable  for  tke  body 
I  build. 

My  thought  thrills  my  body.  My  thought  thrills  my  nerves  and 
sets  free  the  elixirs  of  rejuvenation.  My  body  responds  to  the  thrill 
and  grows  finer  and  more  youthful  and  more  beautiful.  I  must  think 
beautiful  thoughts  to  thrill  and  beautify  my  body. 

In  ordinary  conversation  we  hear  remarks  like  the  following  : 
"He  has  a  villianous  countenance."  "She  has  a  madonna  cast  of 
features."  "lie  looks  like  a  minister,"  or,  "He  looks  like  a  bloated 
bond-holder."  "She  looks  as  if  she  had  led  a  dizzy  life,"  or,  "She 
looks  like  an  old  maid."  Do  not  remarks  of  that  kind  show  that 
IK  <>ple  in  general  recognize  that  the  body  typifies  the  character  of 
thought  which  was  habitual  with  the  builders  of  the  bodies  in  ques- 
tion ?  What  is  it  that  fashions  face  and  form  ?  Not  alone  the  shape 
of  the  body  —  the  expressions  of  countenance,  the  pose,  the  poise,  the 
carriage,  the  gait,  the  voice,  the  gestures,  the  hand-clasp;  even  the 


Sixteen  AFFIRMATIONS.  STATEMENTS.  ETC. 

way  he  wears  his  hat,  or  treads  his  shoes,  reveals  much  of  the  inner 
man,  the  Self. 

My  body  being  continually  renewed,  is  new  and  sweet  and  fine 
and  wholesome  and  fragrant,  like  a  little  child 's. 

I  bathe  my  whole  person  every  morning  with  cold  water — or  with 
hot  water  followed  by  cold,  and  soap;  and  followed  by  a  thorough 
rub-down  with  a  Turkish  towel,  starched  for  friction;  at  the  same 
time,  holding  the  thought  of  renewal — that  this  is  the  beginning  of 
a  new  day,  that  all  old  conditions  are  bathed  away;  that  I  am  mak- 
ing a  new  start — that  it  is  the  beginning  of  new  conditions. 

Every  hour  is  a  fresh  beginning. 

Every  year  does  your  body  renew. 

Consider  this,  ye  who  are  aged  by  sinning, 

Herein  lieth  a  hope  for  you. 

Your  body  is  ever  constructed  anew, 

And  the  Self  who  directs  this  work  is  you. 

I  eat  with  the  thought  that  my  food  is  just  what  I  need  to  pro- 
duce the  kind  of  body  I  want.  As  I  eat  no  fish,  flesh  nor  fowl,  no 
animal  fats — using  only  vegetable  oils  in  cooking — my  body  is  less 
dense,  less  clogged,  less  toughened-in-texture,  than  are  the  bodies  of 
those  whose  food  is  corpses  of  creatures,  that  have  suffered  the  shock 
of  a  violent  death,  thus  transmitting  the  vibrations  of  tragedy  thus 


BODY  RENEWAL  /  JJM  Seventeen 


acquired,  the  fright  and  horror,  dread  and  fear,  the  shrinking;  the 
agony  of  the  violent  death,  all  culminating  in  intensest  emotional 
vibrations,  to  be  passed  on  to  those  who  devour.  No  tragedy  vibrates 
my  food.  As  I  eat  only  such  foods  as  I  agree  with,  my  food  always 
agrees  with  me,  so  I  get  good  results  from  what  I  eat.  I  drink  plenty 
of  water,  as  liquids  are  needed  in  my  body-building.  My  body  is  large- 
ly composed  of  liquids  and  requires  that  I  drink,  to  supply  to  the 
various  organs  sufficient  to  enable  them  to  secrete  the  juices  necessary 
to  their  perfect  performance  of  their  work;  also,  for  the  flushing  and 
remftval  of  waste  from  the  system  ;  and  to  increase  my  circulation. 

I  drink  for  cleanliness,  purity,  fairness  of  flesh  and  freshness  of 
complexion. 

]\y  breathing  and  bathing,  by  eating  and  drinking,  with  ever 
the  purpose  in  view,  of  the  betterment  of  my  bodily  conditions,  so 
do  I  bring  my  thought  to  bear  upon  my  body-substance,  and  so  vi- 
brate its  atoms  as  to  cause  in  my  body,  the  desired  conditions  of 
perfection.  As  I  think,  so  do  I  vibrate.  As  I  think,  so  do  I  change 
my  body-material.  As  I  think9  so  do  I  mold  my  body-substance,  to 
accord  with  my  plan  or  pattern,  or  ideal  of  that  which  I  desire  to  ex- 
ternalize in  my  body.  My  body  is  vibrant  with  health  and  radiant 
with  joy. 

T  sleep  with  plenty  of  ventilation,  recognizing  that  I  could  live 


Eighteen  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

for  a  long  time  without  food,  for  less  time  without  drink  •  but  that 
air  I  must  have — that  'tis  Life's  great  essential. 

I  sleep  with  but  light  covering,  as  I  recognize  the  fact  that  heavy 
covers  enclose  and  hold  in  the  emanations  of  the  body.  It  is  better, 
if  necessary,  for  warmth,  to  have  a  heated  iron,  brick  or  soapstone, 
or  a  jug,  or  can  of  hot  water — or  a  hot  water  bottle — in  the  bed, 
rather  than  covers,  that  prevent  the  escape  of  waste  thrown  off  dur- 
ing sleep;  for  the  body  breathes  and  there  is  ever  an  insensible  per- 
spiration— always  passing  out,  through  the  pores  of  the  skin,  whether 
one  wakes  or  sleeps.  If  these  pores  are  clogged,  so  the  body  can 
not  cast  out  these  poisons,  the  whole  system  becomes  surcharged 
with  waste  matter.  During  a  pageant  in  Rome,  it  was  deemed  de- 
sirable to  cover  a  child's  body  with  a  coating  of  gold,  to  make  a 
little  golden  angel,  and  as  soon  as  applied,  the  child  died. 

Trees  and  plants  breathe  through  their  leaves  and  we  breathe, 
not  alone  by  our  lungs. 

I  sleep  with  no  pillow,  as  I  breathe  more  freely  than  with  head 
raised.  Also,  there  is  better  circulation  of  air  about  head  and  neck. 

Besides,  sinking  the  face  into  a  pillow  pushes  the  soft  flesh  for- 
ward, causing  wrinkles. 

Japanese  sleep  on  a  small,  hard  pillow  under  the  neck — how 
often  do  you  see  a  wrinkled  Jap  ? 

As  I  breathe  freely  and  deeply,  I  recognize  the  Breath   as  the 


/  JIM  BODY  RENEWAL  /  JIM  Nineteen 

Life.  I  recognize  Breath  as  Spirit.  Every  inspiration  (analyze  the 
word)  is  literally  and  truly  an  intake  of  Spirit;  from  in,  and  spira- 
tus,  Latin  for  breath;  and  spirare  to  breathe.  Ghost,  used  inter- 
changeably with  Spirit,  is  from  the  Anglo  Saxon  gheist,  meaning 
Breath.  The  Greek  Pneuma,  meaning  Spirit,  we  find  in  such  de- 
rivatives as  pnuemonia,  disease  of  the  organs  of  breath;  and  pneu- 
matic, air-inflated,  as  a  pneumatic  tire,  etc.,  etc.  Air  is  atmosphere, 
and  atmosphere  is  the  Atmos,  ether,  vapor,  mist  or  Breath  of  our 
planet  or  sphere.  We  inspire,  in  breathe  the  Breath  or  Spirit  of 
our  sphere. 

Spirit  is  the  highest  rate  of  vibration.  Spirit  is  the  one  Sub- 
stance from  which  is  created  everything  that  is  created. 

Mind  holds  the  pattern,  Spirit  is  the  Substance.  Thought  vi- 
bration does  the  work. 

As  I  think,  so  do  I  vibrate  my  body-Substance,  which  is  a  lower, 
slower  rate  of  Spirit. 

My  body  is  not  a  dense  solid.  It  is  Spirit  vibrating — vibrated 
by  thought. 

1  must  be  careful  how  I  think.  As  I  think  I  vibrate,  so  I  build. 
Thought  controls.  According  to  my  plan  or  design,  my  ideal  or  pat- 
tern, held  in  my  Subconscious  mind,  so  do  I  build.  Each  of  us  does 
this  unconsciously.  The  trouble  is  that  many — yes,  most  individuals — 


Twenty  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

are  reproducing  year  after  year,  bodies,  built  after  the  same  old 
pattern  of  disease,  infirmities,  decrepitudes. 

They  need  to  get  new  patterns.  If  you  were  going  to  buy  a 
pattern  for  a  new  gown,  would  you  select  one  of  the  styles  of  years 
gone  by?  One  always  selects  a  new  style,  an  up-to-date  pattern,  for 
making  a  garment.  But  in  body-building,  most  people  go  'on, 
year  after  year,  perpetuating  old  conditions  in  their  bodies. 

Why  hold  an  '  old  stoop-shouldered,  stiff -jointed^  weak-kneed, 
toothless,  hairless,  ugly  pattern?  Don't  go  on,  building  after  that 
horrid,  old  pattern,  which  you  really  detest  and  which  is  a  perfect 
bug-a-boo  to  you,  scaring  you  half  out  of  your  wits,  as  you  see  it 
externalizing  in  your  body. 

Get  a  new  pattern !  Think,  0,  think  how  much  better  looking  you 
would  be. 

Then  put  out  of  your  mind  that  stoop-shouldered  ideal.  Think 
how  you  would  look  if  you  were  erect.  Keep  thinking  of  it.  Take 
some  physical  exercises  to  help,  and  while  exercising,  keep  on  thinking 
how  you  are  going  to  look.  And  each  day  notice  that  you  are  making 
a  little  progress.  It  grows  easier  to  perform.  Keep  on  thinking. 
Keep  on  recognizing  each  little  bit  of  gain. 

Do  you  trundle  around,  on  the  front  of  you,  a  great  load  of 
obesity?  Isn't  it  tiresome  besides  bein<*  ugly  to  look  at?  Why  not 
jret  rid  of  it? 


/  JIM          BODY  RENEWAL  /  JIM  Twenty-one 

You  can  accomplish  wonders  in  working  a  change,  if  you  only 
recognize  that  you  can,  and  set  yourself  about  it. 

You're  too  old?  No  you  are  not.  It's  all  in  the  way  you  think. 
You  may  have  to  reform  before  you  can  transform.  You  may  have 
to  exercise  more  and  eat  less  of  rich  foods.  And  you  surely  will  have 
to  think  more  and  be  faithful  to  your  work.  An  occasional  spurt,  in 
effort,  will  not  avail.  It  must  be  regular  and  continued.  Think  how 
long  you've  been  acquiring  the  habits  your  are  aiming  to  eradicate. 

But  is  it  not  worth  the  effort?.  Don't  give  up.  Nothing  worth 
while  is  attained,  without  effort.  To  encourage  you,  right  here,  I  will 
digress  to  relate  a  bit  of  personal  history.  Years  ago,  twenty-five — 
yes  and  more,  the  author  had  the  misfortune  to  meet  with  three  seri- 
ous accidents,  being  twice  thrown  from  a  horse  and  once  from  a  buggy 
within  one  year;  each  time  sustaining  serious  hurts — resulting  in 
spinal  injuries  that  completely  wrecked  her  health.  A  few  years  since 
she  began  to  work  to  overcome  these  conditions  and  today  she  is  quite 
rid  of  them,  having  attained  to  normal  conditions  of  health  through 
these  very  rules  which  she  is  giving,  in  this  treatise.  I  must  state 
that  the  cure  has  its  price.  Eternal  vigilance  is  the  price  of  success, 
in  this,  as  elsewhere.  But  is  it  not  worth  it? 

If  injured  so  that  it  is  necessary,  go  to  a  good  Osteopath,  for  re- 
adjustment ;  and  then  work,  work,  WORK  faithfully,  for  health— 
Tlcnllh,  from  the  Anglo  Saxon  "Wholth",  meaning  wholeness. 


Twenty-two  AFFIRMATIONS.  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

Never  allow  yourself  to  complain  and  pine  and  mope  and  whine 
and  pity  yourself.  It  does  you  no  good.  It  only  weakens  you  and 
interferes  with  your  better  work  in  rebuilding.  Every  time  you  say 
or  think  ' '  poor  me ! ' '  you  are  giving  yourself  poor  material  to  work 
with.  Know  that  your  are  not  1 1  poor  me  ! "  Your  are  an  individual- 
ized Spirit  or  Soul,  with  the  Divine  birthright  which  comes  to  you 
through  your  oneness  with  the  Infinite  the  Limitless. 

Being  at  one  with  the  Omnipotent,  all  power  is  yours,  when  you 
recognize  it.  You  are  in  the  process  of  becoming — don't  you  want  to 
progress,  to  overcome,  to  become  more  and  more,  to  achieve  more  and 
more?  Then  quit  "  pooring  "  "yourself .  Keep  affirming  /  am  at  one 
with  Omnipotence  or  All  Power.  Recognize — live  in  consciousness  of 
your  Divine  heritage.  You  can  appropriate  all  that  you  can  recog- 
nize. So  keep  on  affirming  or  giving  yourself  the  auto-suggestion 
(or  self-suggestion)  that  you  are  strong  in  the  strength  of  Omnipot- 
ence or  All  Power;  and  wise  with  the  wisdom  of  Omniscience  (which 
is  analyzed,  Omni,  meaning  all,  and  Science,  meaning  knowledge  or 
wisdom.  Keep  on  claiming  this  for  yourself  until  your  consciousness 
grasps  it,  and  you  become  filled  with  its  truth.  Know  that  'tis  truth 
that  you  are  affirming. 

Once  having  become  conscious  of  this  indwelling  Power,  I 
recognize  that  by  and  through  it,  /  am  capable  of  controlling  my 
health  and  my  affairs. 


/  JIM          BODY  RENEWAL  /  JIM  Twenty-three 

When  I  fully  recognize  this,  nothing  can  harm  me,  for  I  live  in 
consciousness  of  my  power  to  overcome. 

If  conditions  which  are  adverse  to  me,  seem  to  have  attached 
themselves,  like  barnacles,  to  me,  I  will  use  the  Power  of  which  I  am 
conscious  to  disperse  and  drive  them  away. 

As  continued  repetition  of  an  act  forms  a  habit,  I  by  repeatedly 
thrilling  the  nerves  of  my  body  with  the  beauty  of  my  thought,  pro- 
duce a  renewed  and  ever  renewing  and  beautiful  body.  Each  body 
I  build,  is  finer,  fairer  and  more  elastic  than  the  one  I  last  builded. 

My  features  grow  more  beautiful  more  nearly  perfect  as  they  re- 
peatedly renew. 

My  flesh  is  becoming  very  fine.  I  will  try  to  live  more  and  more 
in  consciousness  of  my  union  with  the  Infiinite,  the  Limitless,  the 
Omnipotent. 

My  consciousness  of  the  presence  of  this  indwelling  Power,  en- 
ables me  to  transmute  it  into  Health,  Strength,  Force,  Energy,  so  that 
I  can  truly  say : 

"It  matters  not  how  strait  the  gate, 

ITow  charged  with  punishments  the  scroll. 

I  am  the  master  of  my  fate. 
/  am  the  captain  of  my  soul." 


Twenty-four  AFFIRMATIONS.  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

I  am  is  captain.  I  am  is  master.  I  will  keep  this  ever  in  mind- 
ever  in  my  consciousness. 

That  which  one  affirms,  believing,  will  come  true — or,  in  other 
words,  one's  subconscious  faith,  his  innermost  belief,  is  sure  to  ob- 
jectify in  his  body. 

One  must  believe  that  which  he  affirms.  Hence,  the  necessity  of 
repeating  the  affirmations.  It  is  by  repeating  them  again  and  again, 
and  again,  recognizing  at  the  same  time,  the  truth  which  you  affirm 
that  the  subconscious  at  last  fully  grasps  and  makes  the  truth  its  own; 
or,  the  subconscious  records  it,  or  registers  it,  as  a  truth,  after  which 
it  works  out — shows  forth,  in  the  outer.  Verily  'tis  true,  that  "As 
a  man  thinketh  in  his  heart  so  is  he".  By  patiently  and  faithfully 
affirming,  one  may  change  or  overcome  a  belief  to  the  contrary.  For 
instance,  one  may  have  a  belief  that  she  has  a  disease,  but  by  recog- 
nizing that  she  is  truly  a  spirit  at  one  with  the  Divine  Source,  and 
affirming  that  truth,  and  recognizing  that  Spirit  cannot  be  ill,  but  that 
Spirit  is  Life,  Health  and  Strength ;  and  that,  as  she  is  Spirit  she  can 
truly  claim  for  herself  all  that  Spirit  implies — as  she  sees  the  truth 
of  this,  her  affirmations  of  Life,  Health  and  Strength  get  hold  and 
register  in  the  Subconscious  and  produce  the  desired  results. 

Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox  savs : — 


/  JIM  BODY  RENEWAL  /  .//M  Twenty-five 

Words  are  great  forces  in  the  realm  of  life; 

Be  careful  of  their  use.    Who  talks  of  hate, 
Of  poverty,  of  sickness,  but  sets  rife 

These  very  elements,  to  mar  his  fate. 
When  love,  health,  happiness  and  plenty  hear 

Their  names  repeated  over,  day  by  day, 
They  wing  their  way,  like  answering  fairies  near, 

Then  nestle  down,  within  our  homes  to  stay. 
Who  talks  of  evil,  conjures  into  shape 

That  formless  thing,  and  gives  it  life  and  scope. 
This  is  law ;  then  let  no  word  escape 

That  dees  not  breathe  of  everlasting  hope. 

The  power  of  the  thought  voiced  in  words,  produces  a  thrill  or 
vibration  in  the  body-substance  raising  its  rate  of  vibration,  and  thus 
ejecting  the  disease;  which,  after  all,  is  only  an  inharmonious  vibra- 
tion— a  lack  of  equilibrium  or  a  case  of  unbalance  in  the  organism. 

Harmony  is  health.    When  harmony  is  secured,  health  is  restored. 

The  Z  the  Ego,  the  Self  of  me  is  at  one  with  the  Infinite  Source. 
Hence  I  have  all  of  that  Source  to  depend  upon,  to  draw  upon,  to  rely 
upon — to  recognize  as  my  Power — "Underneath  are  the  everlasting 
arms."  The  steady  influx  of  this  invisible  Power  is  ever  in  operation 
in  my  body,  ever  vibrating-  its  Substance — ever  tearing  down  and 


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renovating — ever  removing  the  material  which,  has  been  used,  and  as 
continually  using  the  new  material  supplied  by  me,  reproducing  a 
new  body.  And  if  my  body  is  new,  and  is  built  after  a  plan  that  is 
ever  held  in  the  treasure-house  of  my  Subconscious,  then  sure  it  is 
that  I  shall  have  a  beautiful  body.  I  direct  the  dynamic  power  of 
my  thought  upon  the  work  of  my  body  renewal.  It  is  like  directing 
a  stream  of  water  from  a  hose  to  cut  down  an  old  adobe  wall.  That 
the  wall  must  dissolve  and  go  down  is  a  foregone  conclusion.  So  the 
old  conditions  must  dissolve  and  go. 

Treat  your  old  conditions  as  a  tree  treats  its  old  leaves.  The  tree 
withdraws  the  sap  and  the  leaves  thus  lose  their  power  to  hold  on. 
So  they  shrivel,  and  dry  up,  and  drift  away,  on  the  breeze.  Withdraw 
from  your  undesirable  conditions  your  recognition  of  their  power 
over  you.  Recognize  your  power  over  them  and  you  withdraw  from 
them  their  power  to  hold  to  you.  When  your  recognition — or  your 
fear  of  them  is  gone,  they  cannot  hold  on ;  they  must  drift  away. 

Vibration  is  Nature's  Greatest  Law.  It  accounts  for  every  con- 
dition. It  can  be  made  to  completely  change  all  conditions.  Raising 
the  vibrations  of  any  substance  transmutes  the  substance  or  changes 
it;  thereby  changing  its  conditions. 

All  that  differentiates  substances  is  the  difference  in  their  rates 
of  vibration.  If  all  substances  could  be  made  to  vibrate  alike  there 
would  then  be  but  one  substance.  When  one  becomes  aware  of  this 


BODY  RENEWAL  /  JIM  Twenty-seven 


truth,  then  is  he  awakened  to  the  differences  existing  between  things. 
Also  he  may  by  this  recognition,  learn  to  overcome  conditions  by  this 
knowledge.  Here  is  a  point  to  note,  viz:  A  change  effected  in  the 
vibration  changes  the  physical  conditions.  Often  one  feels  sad,  blue, 
depressed  and  miserable,  when  along  comes  some  cheery  person  who 
tells  him  a  joke,  makes  him  laugh  and  brings  an  instant  change  into 
his  body.  Or  cne  is  out  of  sorts,  has  aches  and  pains,  of  which  he  is 
aware  ;  and  some  friend  proposes  that  he  go  on  a  pleasure  trip.  They 
go  and  his  vibrations  are  changed  and  he  loses  his  disagreeable  feel- 
ings. Now,  knowing  this,  why  should  you  not  seek  something  that 
will  change  the  rate  of  your  vibration  ?  To  one  who  loves  music,  there 
is  no  surer  way  of  throwing  off  ill  feelings,  than  to  go  where  he  can 
hear  good  music,  and  then  resign  himself  for  the  time,  entirely  to  its 
power. 

Place  yourself  in  harmony  with  the  music,  and  let  it  vibrate  your 
body,  until  you  come  into  accord  with  it.  You  know  when  there  are 
two  pianos,  in  the  same  room  and  one  is  played,  the  other  vibrates 
with  it.  Let  your  body  vibrate  with  the  music,  and  it  Avill  harmonize 
it  and  restore  you  to  harmony  which  is  Health. 

Sometimes  viewing  an  inspiring  scene  wTill  have  the  same  effect  ; 
or  beholding  a  work  of  art  which  thrills  you  and  raises  your  rate  of 
vibration  will  do  likewise. 

For  the  purpose  of  being  healed,  just  as  you'd  go  to  take  any 


Twenty-eight  AFFIRMATIONS.  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

treatment,  it  might  be  well  to  seek  such  music  as  you  love. 

Music  has  great  healing  power  to  those  who  are   alive  to   it. 
(Query.     Do  you  suppose  Edison  has  ever  recognized  the  healing 
which  he  has  made  possible  to  so  many?) 

I  recognize  the  power  of  Thought  to  heal.  At  the  same  time,  I 
direct  the  dynamic  power  of  my  thought  to  rebuild,  to  renew  and  to 
do  the  work  acceptably — perfectly. 

As  by  an  electric  shock  the  atoms  are  awakened,  vitalized,  ener- 
gized, readjusted,  rearranged,  until  the  work  spells  Regeneration — 
Rejuvenation. 

I  am  one  with  Infinite  Power 

Infinite  Love  is  near. 
Limitless  Possibility  lies  before — 
I  have  no  fear. 

Because  I  recognize  my  oneness  with  Infinite  Power,  I  can  be 
and  do  what  I  will. 

I  can  draw  as  heavily  as  I  will  upon  my  Source.  Nor  can  I  draw 
enough,  to  defraud  anyone  else.  The  Source  is  Limitless,  and  all 
have  the  same  right  as  I,  and  the  same  power  to  draw,  when  they 
come  to  recognize  the  Power  and  their  right  to  it. 

Each  of  us  is  in  the  process  of  becoming,  and  the  rate  of  vibra- 
tion of  each,  accounts  for  difference  of  appearance.  As  an  instance. 


/  JIM  BODY  RENEWAL  /  JJM  Twenly-nine 

take  two  extremes  in  animals — take  the  heavy,  full-bodied,  large- 
legged,  big- footed,  stowly-plodding  dray  horse,  patiently,  faithfully 
doing  his  work,  and  the  light-built,  slender-legged,  impatient,  high 
tensioned,  alert,  fine,  high-spirited,  race  horse,  with  uplifted  head, 
arched  neck,  flaring  nostrils,  fairly  spurning  the  earth  beneath  his 
light  feet. 

Again,  note  the  difference  between  the  slowly-hopping,  cold-blood- 
ed toad,  a  creature  of  the  earth,  with  no  power  to  get  above  its 
surface,  and  the  intensely  animate,  quickly  moving,  highly  vibrating 
humming  bird,  keenly  alert,  as  it  darts  among  the  flowers  and  sends 
its  bill  into  each  blossom's  throat  in  search  of  its  nectared  fare.  From 
these,  turn  your  attention  to  people — begin  to  note  the  differences  in 
them.  Some,  like  the  ox,  or  dray  horse  or  toad  are  slow,  dense,  heavy, 
obtuse,  plodding ;  others,  like  the  racehorse  and  the  humming  bird, 
are  alert,  keen,  fine,  quick,  acute,  eager,  light  of  movement,  spirited, 
with  intense  vibrations,  alive  to  everything,  keenly  feeling  the  things 
and  conditions  about  them — emotional,  responsive,  awake. 

When  one  becomes  accustomed  to  noting  these  differences  he  has 
no  trouble  in  placing  those  whom  he  observes,  as  easily  as  he  distin- 
guishes between  the  dray  horse  and  the  race  horse;  or  between  the 
toad  and  the  humming  bird. 

Words  vibrate  with  power — so  have  a  care  as  to  how  you  use 
them.  Once  spoken,  you  have  turned  them  loose  and  can  never  bring 


Thirty  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

them  back.  Form  a  habit  of  recognizing  this.  Tones  of  voice  vibrate 
with  power.  Did  you  never  hear  the  expression- ' '  he  swore  till  the  air 
was  blue?"  That,  however,  I  believe,  arose  from  comparison  to  the 
blue  of  burning  sulphur.  However,  each  and  every  sound,  each  tone 
of  voice,  each  note  of  an  instrument,  vibrates  into  color,  as  it  ascends. 
If  you  have  any  doubts  of  the  power  of  the  vibrations  produced  by 
sound,  take  your  Bible  and  read  the  sixth  chapter  of  Joshua.  The 
fall  of  the  city  of  Jericho. 

I  will  thrill  my  being  with  thoughts  of  youth  and  activity,  until 
every  nerve  is  free  and  vigorous,  and  every  cell  glows  witli  life  and 
youth. 

I  will  not  dwell  on  the  dreary  things,  the  dismal  things  of  my 
past.  I  will  gather  together  the  bright  things,  the  lovely  things  and 
incidents  and  be  glad.  I  will  remember  every  enjoyable  incident  of 
my  life. 

I  will  affirm  my  soul  powers  until  I  vibrate  my  body  substance,  in 
harmony  with  my  thought  and  word.  No  nerve-pressure  for  me !  No 
sluggish  conditions  for  me!  /  am  alive  to  the  tips  of  my  fingers  and 
toes.  I  thrill  with  energy,  activity  and  youth.  Just  as  the  strings  of 
the  Aeolian  Harp  quiver  and  vibrate  with  the  sweep  of  the  breeze,  so 
do  my  nerves  vibrate  and  cause  the  cells  of  my  body  to  arouse,  to 
awake,  to  stir,  to  vibrate  with  the  thoughts  which  T  constantly  hold, 
of  energy,  activity,  vigor,  vim. 


/  JIM          BODY  RENEWAL  /  JIM  Thirty-one 

Life  !  Life !  more  Life  !  Youth,  Stir,  Activity !  Ambition,  Vital- 
ity, Force,  Power — more  Power !  There  is  not  a  lazy  bone  in  my  body. 
There  is  not  a  dormant  cell.  There  is  not  a  sluggish  atom.  All  is 
Life,  Youth,  Alertness,  Energy,  Power? 

As  the  sunshine  warms  and  vivifies,  so  do  these  affirmations  quick- 
en and  electrify,  until  my  whole  being  responds  and  is  thrilled  with 
thoughts  of  Life — Youth — Stir — Vitality,  Vigor,  Vim,  Energy,  Activ- 
ity, Alertness.  For  verily — of  a  truth,  as  a  man  thinketh  in  his  heart 
— mind  you  in  his  HEART,  so  is  he;  in  his  HEART  in  his  innermost 
»SV// — in  his  Soul,  so  is  he! 

And  so  I  form  a  rosary — I  string  together  these  words,  so  vibrant 
with  power.  Life,  Vitality,  Vim,  Vigor,  Energy,  Activity,  Youth,  and 
I  say  them  over  and  over  recognizing  the  vibrations  which  they  set 
into  activity  thrilling  my  very  being  with  their  potency,  until  my 
whole  person  glows  with  Youth — until  every  cell  responds  and  every 
atom  thrills.  So  I  build  Youth  into  my  being.  So  I  renew  Youth. 
I  am  potentially,  no-w,  this  minute,  all  that  I  ever  can  be.  I  am  the 
indwelling  Spirit  of  Life — the  essential  Spirit;  the  Essence — The 
Source  of  Life,  Health,  Strength,  Wisdom  and  Power  is  the  /  of  me. 
/  am  Life  marfifest,  Life  expressed,  Life  objectified.  /  am  Health 
expressed !  /  am  Wisdom  personified.  I  am  Power  made  manifest. 
The  Life  that  is  the  life  of  my  life — the  Essential  Spirit  is  the  Source 
individualized. 


thirty-two  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS.  ETC. 

As  the  branch  of  a  tree,  when  cut  from  the  tree,  is  powerless,  so 
am  Z,  if  severed  from  the  Source  unable  to  be  or  to  do.  It  is  only 
through  my  recognition  of  my  oneness  with  the  Source — the  Spirit 
that  I  can  be  and  do.  In  so  much  as  I  live  in  constant  recognition 
am  I  enabled  to  come  into  realization.  As  a  tree  is  alive  throughout 
its  trunk  and  limbs,  its  branches,  its  twigs  and  its  leaves,  so  am  /  alive 
throughout  my  bones  and  flesh,  my  nerves  and  sinews,  my  cells  and 
atoms.  My  body  is  alive  to  the  uttermost.  It  is  awake,  alert  in  all 
its  cells.  I  am  thankful  that  I  have  the  knowledge  that  my  body  is 
undergoing  change.  I  am  thankful  that  I  have  evidence  that  my  body 
renews.  I  am  thankful  that  I  know  how  to  control  the  renewal  of 
my  body. 

Recognition  ever  precedes  realization.  Just  so  much  as  you 
recognize  as  truth,  that  much  you  can  appropriate  to  your  needs. 
But  you  must  first  recognize.  To  illustrate,  if  you  were  sitting  in  a 
room  darkened  by  drawn  shades,  and  you  desired  lig-ht,  you  would 
first  recognize  that  you  could  get  the  light  by  raising  the  shades,  after 
which,  you  would  get  the  light,  your  realization.  Or,  sitting  in  a 
darkened  room,  if  you  did  not  know  there  was  an  electric  light  and 
where  to  find  the  switch,  you  might  go  on  longing  fof1  the  light  which 
would  not  come,  without  you  recognized  that  you  could  press  the 
button  and  so,  realize. 

Or,  you  might  stand  at  a  kitchen  sink,  sadly  needing  water,  which 


/  JJM  BODY  RENEWAL  /  AM  Thirty-three 

you  would  fail  to  get  until  you  recognized  that  it  was  there,  on  tap, 
and  liberated  it  by  a  turn  of  the  faucet — and  behold,  your  realization. 
So  much  as  you  can  recognize,  that  much  you  may  realize;  but  one 
must  recognize  first. 

Recognize  first  who  and  what  your  are — not  body;  but  an  indi- 
vidualized Spirit — a  Soul,  differentiated  from  all  other  souls,  by  your 
experiences ;  a  Soul  owning  a  body  by  means  of  which  you  are  enabled 
to  express  or  manifest  to  all  other  souls;  a  body  which  is  the  vehicle 
of  your  expression.  So  much  as  you  can  recognize  that  much  you  can 
realize. 

Recognize  your  power  to  be  and  to  do,  as  solely  through  your 
oucit ess  with  The  Infinite,  The  Devine. 

I  am  thankful  that  I  live  in  consciousness  of  my  renewal.  I  am 
thankful  that  I  know  how  to  bring  my  thought  to  bear  upon  the  re- 
newal of  my  body.  I  am  thankful  that  I  have  a  new,  strong  active 
healthy,  youthful  body. 

Not  one  cell,  one  atom  of  my  body  is  at  a  standstill.  My  body 
thrills  with  renewal.  My  body  throbs  with  renewal.  My  body  vibrates 
with  renewal.  My  body  glows  with  renewal.  My  body  tingles  with 
renewal.  I  feel  the  warmth  and  strength  of  renewal  permeating  my 
whole  body.  I  am  ever  conscious  of  the  renewal  of  my  body. 


Thirty-four  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

I  recognize  the  newness  of  my  body. 

I  realize  the  newness  of  my  body. 

I  exult  in  the  neivness  of  my  body. 
The  newness  of  my  body  is  felt  by  me. 

The  newness  of  my  body  is  seen  by  me. 

The  newness  of  my  body  is  noticed  by  my  friends. 
The  newness  of  my  body  is  apparent  to  all. 

Those  who  know  me  remark  upon  the  changes  for  the  better  in 
my  body. 

To  all,  I  carry  the  appearance  of  Vitality,  Vigor,  Vim,  Newness, 
Alertness,  Poise,  Power. 

My  expression  in  every  respect,  suggests  to  others  the  soundness, 
cleanliness,  newness,  force,  vigor,  energy,  activity,  alertness,  ease  and 
ability  of  my  body. 

My  expression  in  every  way  is  a  perfect  expression  of  the  8. elf 
within.  My  expression  suggests  to  all,  Purpose,  Power,  Perfect  Poise 
— in  short,  a  body  that  is  under  the  will  of  the  individual  who  owns 
it. 

/  am  an  individualized  expression  of  the  one  Life  which  is  the 
Life  of  all  Life.  The  Life  which  is  /  is  the  same  Life  which  mani- 


/  JIM          BODY  RENEWAL  /  JIM  Thirty-five 

fests  variously,  as  the  bee,  the  bird,  the  butterfly,  the  horse,  the  ele- 
phant, man. 

The  Life  which  is  /  manifests  upon  many  planes,  or  in  many 
grades  or  degrees,  from  the  mineral  up,  through  the  varying  forms 
of  plant,  tree,  insect,  brute,  human. 

The  person  which  is  individualized  is  the  persona  ,  (Latin  for 
mask).  Players  on  the  stage  in  ancient  times  wore  masks,  through 
which  or  from  behind  which,  they  spoke  to  the  audience.  So  each  of 
us  plays  to  the  world  through  or  from  within  a  persona  or  mask  or 
person,  by  means  of  which  we  express  or  manifest  ourselves.  The 
person  which  is  my  persona  or  mask  is  the  highest  type  of  manifesta- 
tion. So  my  body  or  person  is  worthy  of  consideration.  It  is  the  ves- 
sel of  the  Spirit.  It  is  the  vehicle  of  my  expression,  hence  I  must  re- 
cognize my  body  as  worth  preserving,  worth  renewing. 

As  cloud,  mist,  vapor,  rain,  frost,  hail,  snow-crystal,  icicle  are 
all  one  substance,  varying  only  in  manifestation ;  so  are  Spirit,  Breath, 
Life  Blood,  Muscle,  Brain,  Brawn,  the  same  in  substance;  varying  only 
in  density  of  manifestation — in  other  words,  rates  of  vibration.  In 
each  case,  the  rate  of  vibration  governs.  As  Thought  is  the  Power 
which  controls  the  vibrations  of  the  cells  of  my  body ;  and  as  I  can 
think  as  I  will,  then  is  it  evident  that  I  by  directing  my  thought — by 
choosing  just  the  kind  of  thought  which  I  wish  to  objectify,  can  vi- 
brate my  atoms  at  will,  to  renovate,  to  rejuvenate  my  body. 


Thirty-ax  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

This,  then,  is  the  K  E  Y  to  the  problem  of  my  consciously  renew- 
ing my  body. 

As  the  loaf  of  dough  is  passive,  negative,  subject,  to  my  will- 
so  is  this  fluidic,  elastic,  resilient  responsive  body  of  mine  negative  and 
passive  to  my  positive  thought  guided  and  directed  by  my  Will.  So  I 
renew — so  I  rebuild  at  Will.  As  the  vibrations  of  heat,  beneath  my 
tea-kettle  send  the  steam  forth  distilled,  so  do  the  vibrations  of  my 
Thought,  thrilling  my  body  substance  project  my  body  into  objec- 
tivity. Verily,  verily,  as  one  thinketh  in  the  depths  of  his  being  doth 
he  put  forth  into  manifestations  a  body,  molded  by  his  thought 
guided  and  directed  by  his  will.  Those  among  whom  I  live  and  move 
and  manifest,  cannot  see  the  process  of  this. 

They  judge  only  by  the  results  which  I  can  show  them.  Hence 
added  incentive,  as  the  better  the  results  I  present  to  them,  the  bet- 
ter will  be  their  recognition  of  my  ability  to  renew  at  will.  I  must 
show  them  that  /  can,  before  they  will  give  me  the  recognition  I 
seek. 

St.  Paul  says  "Ye  are  living  epistles  known  and  read  of  all 
men."  In  other  words,  those  whom  we  meet,  sometimes  consciously, 
though  more  often  unconsciously  to  themselves,  "size  us  up."  And 
often  "Ye  are  weighed  in  the  balances  and  found  wanting."  If  your 
manifestation  is  first  class,  their  recognition  will  be  the  better  for  it. 


BODY  RENEWAL  /  AM  Thirty-seven 


If  they  "size  you  up"  with  approval,  you  recognize  it  and  it  helps 
you  to  do  better  and  better. 

I  will  be  careful  to  give  expression  to  such  affirmations  only  as 
I  wish  to  put  into  expression. 

I  will  not  take  the  name  of  the  Lord  in  vain.  I  mean  the  I  am. 
I  will  not  say  /  am  sick,  or  poor,  or  weak,  or  worthless,  or  stupid,  or 
foolish,  or  old,  or  ugly.  I  will  not  attribute  to  the  /  am  anything 
which  I  do  not  want  externalized.  I  recognize  that  the  /  am  of  me 
is  perfect.  So,  if  I  make  such  untrue  affirmations,  I  am  stating  un- 
truths and  doing  great  injustice  to  myself. 

Also,  I  will  never  say  to  another  that  he  is  sick  or  weak  or  that 
she  looks  pale  or  miserable,  or  that  anything  in  her  appearance  in- 
dicates an  undesirable  physical  condition.  In  this  I  will  remember 
the  golden  rule.  I  recognize  that  the  Subconscious  of  each  is  recep- 
tive of  suggestion  and  that  I  must  be  careful  of  the  suggestions  I 
plant.  I  have  no  right  to  affirm  of  another  that  which  will  harm  his 
expression. 

Whatsoever  I  really  and  truly  think  of  myself  is  bound  to  ob- 
jectify in  my  expression.  So  I  dare  not  think  negative,  injurious, 
weakening  thoughts,  lest  I  cause  them  to  externalize  in  the  structure 
I  am  building  all  the  time  —  every  day,  hour,  minute. 

It  is  not  for  me  to  chocse  whether  or  not  I  shall  build  my  body. 
So  long  as  T  remain  in  it  1  liavc  to  build  whether  I  like  it  or  not. 


Thirty-eight  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

So  if  I  would  not  live  in  an  old  tumble-down  shack,  it  behooves  me 
to  take  care  .of  my  thoughts  and  words,  as  I  build. 

I  will  have  a  body  that  truthfully  expresses  me;  expresses  the 
7,  or  Ego,  or  Soul,  which  is  the  real  /  of  me. 

I  am  Life.  Notice  I  do  not  say  I  have  life,  because  the  I  or  Self 
of  me  is  the  Life  of  me.  So,  I  am  Life.  I, am  Health.  /  am  Strength. 
I  am  Energy.  7  am  Activity.  7  am  Intelligence.  7  am  Intellect. 
7  am  Wisdom.  7  am  Power. 

The  7  am  of  me  is  the  Life,  Health,  Strength,  Energy,  Activity, 
Intelligence,  Intellect,  Wisdom,  Power  of  me.  Think  of  this.  With- 
out the  7  am  of  you,  which  is  the  indwelling  Spirit,  the  Divine  Spark 
which  relates  you  to  the  Infinite,  what  could  you  be  or  do? 

There  is  nothing  which  I  may  not  claim  for  myself — for  my 
Self,  through  my  Divine  heritage.  St.  Paul  said  "The  Spirit  is 
strong,  but  the  flesh  is  weak."  If  he  had  said  "The  flesh  is  nothing. 
excepting  of,  or  by,  or  through  the  Spirit,"  he  would  have  stated  it 
more  exactly. 

I  recognize  my  Source.  I  recognize  my  oneness  with  that  Source. 
I  am  like  the  branch  of  a  tree,  connected  to  my  Source,  living  through 
and  by  my  union  with  that  Source.  If  the  branch  is  cut  off,  the 
life  is  cut  off.  So  with  me,  if  I  am  cut  off  from  or  separated  from 
my  Source,  for  as  the. branch  draws  its  sustenance  from  the  tree, 
so  do  1  live  and  move  and  have  my  being  in  and  of  and  by  my  Source. 


/  JIM  BODY  RENEWAL  /  JIM  Thirty-nine 

It  is  through  that  Source  only  that  I  am*.  I  live  by  Spirit.  /  am  a 
Spirit,  owning  a  body,  by  means  of  which  I  manifest  myself  on  the 
physical  plane.  /  am  at  one  with  the  All  Spirit.  My  breath  is  the 
vehicle  of  Spirit.  It  is  that  outer  vibration  containing  the  finer, 
subtler,  rarer  Essence  or  Essential  Spirit,  or  Life.  Spirit  is  the 
highest  rate  of  vibration.  It  is  the  Breath  within  the  breath,  which 
we,  in  common  with  all  creatures,  breathe. 

'  In  this  Breath  I  live  and  move  and  have  my  being.  /  am  a 
spirit  existing  in  Spirit — surrounded  by  Spirit — inspiring  or  inbreath- 
ing Spirit — at  one  with  Spirit. 

The  Sculptor  Boy,  chisel  in  hand,  stands  before  the  rough  block 
of  marble.  As  he  looks  upon  the  shapeless  bulk,  he  sees  what  no 
other  individual  can  sec  in  that  marble.  He  sees  the  potentialities, 
within  that  shapeless  mass.  For  "as  a  man  thinketh  in  his  heart" 
he  in  his  heart,  in  his  Subconscious  8 elf — in  his  Soul,  holds  an  ideal, 
a  design,  a  plan  a  pattern,  an  image,  a  symbol,  which  he  hopes  to 
bring  forth  into  expression.  So  he  goes  to  work  and  chips  away,  ever 
with  his  thought  upon  his  inner  vision.  On-lookers  see  but  the  rough 
stone,  the  shapeless  form,  the  uneven  surface,  the  meaningless  bulk, 
but  the  Artist  Soul,  the  Dreamer,  the  Visionary  sees  deeper. 

He  sees  within  the  marble,  the  Angel  form,  which  he  is  to  liber- 
ate. And  every  hammer  stroke,  every  incision  is  directed,  by  his 
Ihoughl  toward  the  liberation  of  that  angelic  form. 


Forty  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

Others  may  doubt  and  deride,  what  cares  he?  He  knows,  for 
he  has  the  vision. 

So  Will  7  work  away  with  untiring  zeal,  and  never  flagging 
energy,  toward  the  achievement  of  my  concept — the  expression  of 
my  real  Self  which  others  cannot  see,  until  I  succeed  in  molding  by 
my  conscious  thought,  directed  by  my  never  tiring  Will,  my  fluidic, 
responsive  body.  What  matter  though  others  fail  to  understand? 
What  matter,  if  they  doubt  and  flout?  I  will  not  be  discouraged! 
I  will  not  give  up  the  work!  Verily — as  a  man  tliinketh ,  so  he 
buildeth. 

A  change  in  one's  emotions  produces  a  change  in  his  vibrations, 
thus  causing  a  chemical  change. in  his  body-substance. 

This  is  a  very  important  Point  to  remember.  As  an  instance, 
intense  anger  on  the  part  of  a  mother,  will  so  vibrate  her  body-sub- 
stance as  to  cause  a  chemicalization  of  its  secretions  so  poisonous,  as 
to  cause  the  death  of  her  nursing  child.  The  emotion  of  deep  sorrow 
often  produces  by  lowering  the  vibrations,  a  chemicalization  of  the 
bodily  material,  that  undermines  and  destroys  health  and  in  many 
instances  causes  death. 

A  great  fright  vibrates  the  body-substance,  to  so  rechemiealize, 
in  a  single  night,  as  to  turn  one's  hair  white. 

Even  at  table,  a  sad  story  related,  often  produces  emotions  that 


/  JIM          BODY  RENEWAL          /  JIM  Forty-one 

through  the  chemicalization  caused  by  change  in  vibrations,  produces 
indigestion  and  throws  the  system  out  of  order. 

A  cross  word  from  one  whom  we  love  is  sometimes  so  potent,  as 
to  destroy  the  appetite.  A  telegram  bringing  shocking  news,  some- 
times causes  the  recipient  to  faint  through  disturbance  of  the  sys- 
tem, by  sudden  change  of  vibration  which  rechemicalizes  the  secre- 
tions so  as  to  poison  the  body. 

The  maintenance  of  a  grievance,  and  the  continued  emotion  of 
hatred  or  sense  of  indignation,  carried  in  the  heart,  will  so  depress 
and  lower  the  vibrations,  as  to  cause  the  body  by  chemicalization  to 
stiffen  in  the  joints — and  they  call  it  rheumatism — or  to  lose  use 
of  certain  members — and  then  'tis  called  paralysis. 

Joy,  happiness,  good  cheer,  good  humor  warm  and  vitalize  and 
cause  the  secretions  to  flow  and  the  excretions  to  escape. 

Even  the  meeting  with  a  good  friend,  who  gives  one  a  hearty 
hand  shake  and  a  cheerful  greeting,  will  change  one's  vibrations, 
and  set  the  currents  of  life  in  motion,  and  do  one  a  vast  amount  of 
good  by  changing  the  condition  of  the  whole  organism.  It  has  often 
been  said  that  a  cheerful  physician's  presence  is  of  more  benefit  to 
the  patient,  than  all  his  medicine. 

The  domestic  animals  that  are  associated  with  our  lives,  feel 
keenly  cur  attitudes  of  mind.  How  a  faithful  dog  will  grieve  and 
cringe,  if  reproved  and  scolded  by  the  master  he  loves. 


Forty-two  AFFIRMATIONS.  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

Who  has  not  seen  a  sorry  old  horse  or  mule  that  drudges,  ever 
under  the  curses  and  revilings  of  a  brutal  master,  and  never  gets 
one  word  of  encouragement  or  kindness — never  a  word  of  cheer! 

How  unkind,  how  wicked  it  is,  to  destroy  the  happiness,  the  joy 
—to  close  up  the  very  life  springs  of  another's  life — of  husband  or 
wife — of  parent  or  child,  of  dependent — even  of  a  dumb  creature 
that  can  say  no  word  back,  but  only  droop  and  shrink  and  slink  when 
abused.  What  right  has  one  being  to  depress  and  disease  another? 
Let  us  then,  bear  these  things  in  mind,  and  register  in  the  Subcon- 
scious a  vow  to  be  careful  of  our  thouglits  and  words,  lest  their  vi- 
brations cause  suffering  and  damage  health. 

The  Subconscious  is  a  Master  Chemist.  It  takes  the  suggestion 
offered  it  by  others,  or  by  one 's  own  subconscious  registers  them ;  and 
then  by  chemicalization  they  show  forth  in  the  outer. 

It  is  not  safe  to  say,  "O,  I  am  tired  to  death!",  "I  am  growing 
old,"  "I  am  on  the  downhill  side  of  life,"  "At  my  age,  I  must-  ex- 
pect to  feel  old  and  weak,"  etc.,  etc. 

The  Subconscious  is  a  great  impersonator,  but  does  not  discrimi- 
nate. It  registers  adverse  as  well  as  beneficial  suggestions;  and  puts 
them  into  effect  in  your  body.  Whatever  the  suggestion,  the  Sub- 
conscious takes  and  records,  it  is  bound  to  express  in  the  outer.  To 
say  a  thing,  you  must,  in  some  measure  think  it,  and  the  Subcon- 
scious puts  it  forth  in  your  body  building.  If  you  have  a  desire  to 


BODY  RENEWAL  /  ^M  Forty  -three 


look  well  and  young  and  attractive  —  and  who  has  not?  —  it  behooves 
you  to  look  well  to  your  statements. 

Besides,  it  is  very  necessary  that  you  understand  the  Law  of 
Suggestion  —  every  cne  needs  to  understand  it,  in  order  to  be  on  the 
defensive,  against  the  suggestions  of  others. 

Some  there  are,  and  not  a  few,  who  think  of  themselves  as  your 
friends,  who  would  damage  you  by  their  ignorance  of  the  workings 
of  this  law. 

For  instance,  you  meet  one  of  them.  You  had  not  thought  of 
yourself  as  being  particularly  ill,  but  this  is  the  greeting  you  receive 
under  I  he  belief  that  she  is  showing  you  her  friendship.  "Why,  my 
dear!  how  -wretchedly  ill  you  look!"  You'd  better  begin  to  look  after 
yourself,  or  you'll  be  down  sick  in  bed."  And  you  feel  worse 
and  worse,  all  day,  after  it,  perhaps  give  up  and  go  to  bed  sick,  when 
if  left  alone,  you'd  have  thrown  off  the  condition  that  was  depress- 
ing you.  Why  will  friends  deem  it  necessary  to  tell  one  how  ill  he 
looks,  under  the  impression  that  it  is  the  proper  caper,  in  order  to 
appear  friendly?  In  some  instances,  it  is  done  purposely  by  "catty" 
women,  who  irant  to  hurt  the  one  addressed,  and  who  happen  to  know 
something  of  suggestion.  If  you  can  not  tell  another  how  well  she 
is  looking,  tell  her  that  the  style  of  her  new  hat  becomes  her  ;  or,  re- 
mark upon  how  nicely  she  has  dressed  her  hair;  or,  how  beautifully 
she  has  made  her  dress,  or  —  O,  talk  about  the  weather,  or  —  any- 


Forty-four  AFFIRMATIONS.  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

thing  rather  than  her  looking  ill.  Give  her  a  chance  to  look  well! 
Never  tell  anyone  how  ill  he  looks,  or  the  likelihood  of  his  having 
rheumatism,  the  Grippe,  fatty  degeneration  of  the  heart,  or  that  he 
is  old  and  consequently  susceptible  to  disease.  Never,  no  never!  Cut 
it  out!  If  you  can't  think  of  any  cheerful  remark  to  make  remember 
you  have  no  more  right  to  poison  his  mind,  than  you  have  to  poison 
his  coffee. 

An  instance,  related  to  me  by  a  witness  is  pertinent  to  the  above, 
viz. :  In  a  certain  village  where  she  lived,  fourteen  persons  organized 
a  club  for  the  purpose  of  study  and  research,  along  psychological 
lines.  At  one  of  their  meetings  Charlie,  one  of  the  members,  was 
missing.  Another  member  said,  "Well,  I  have  my  doubts  as  to  the 
certainty  that  Suggestion  will  cure.  If  it  cures,  won't  it  kill? 
It's  a  poor  rule  that  won't  work  both  ways.  I  propose  that  we  test 
it.  Now  there's  Charlie.  As  he's  not  here  tonight,  I  propose  that 
we  try  it  out  on  him.  Let's  all  go  to  him  tomorrow  and  see  if  we 
can  make  him  believe  that  he  is  sick."  The  tendency  toward  inves- 
tigation being  strong  with  some,  others  treating  it  as  a  joke,  all  fi- 
nally assented  to  his  plan  and  it  was  arranged  that  they  go  in  cer- 
tain order  and  successively  suggest  to  Charlie  that  he  was  sick,  and 
watch  the  results.  Charlie,  by  the  way,  was  employed  as  clerk  in 
a  country  store. 

Next  morning,  the  one  who  had  proposed  the  test,  went  to  the 


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store  and  this  conversation  took  place:  "Hello,  Charlie!  Why  were 
you  not  out  last  night,  were  you  sick?  0,  I  sec  you  are  sick.  You 
show  it  in  your  looks."  Charlie  firmly  denied  the  charge,  saying 
that  he  never  felt  better.  But  the  other  insisted  that  there  must  be 
something  wrong  with  him,  or  his  looks  would  not  betray  it.  • 

After  he  left  another  called  who  repeated  the  above  program. 
Then  another  followed  and  another,  and  another,  until  at  noon 
eight  had  called  and  urged  upon  him  that  he  must  be  sick,  because 
his  looks  showed  it.  He  then  looked  in  the  mirror  and  said,  "I  won- 
der if  I  am  sick!  I  do  look  kind  o'  pale.  Maybe  I  am  going  to  be 
sick  and  they  can  see  it."  When  the  others — five  more,  had  followed 
out  the  proposed  plan,  Charlie  was  sick — had  to  be  taken  home,  put 
to  bed ;  and  for  weeks  lay  sick  of  Suggestion — the  rule  works  both 
ffflj/.s- —  and  the  fellow  who  had  planned  the  test,  nursed  him  in  an 
agony  of  fear,  lest  he  die,  and  his  death  be  laid  to  him.  He  had  sat- 
isfied himself  that  "the  rule  would  work  both  ways."  An  almost 
identical  case  occurred  in  a  village  in  Canada,  and  was  described  to 
me,  also  by  one  who  witnessed  it.  A  friend  told  me  this  of  her  own 
experience — I  will,  so  far  as  I  can,  quote  her  words,  exactly,  "My 
mother  would  be  horrified  if  she  knew  of  my  saying  this,  but  she  is 
accountable  for  sister  Rose's  condition — Sister  Rose,  by  the  way,  was 
a  confirmed  invalid.  I  know  'tis  her  love  for  us,  that  has  made  her 
do  so,  and  her  mistaken  idea  that  she  is  showing  her  love  by  the  way 


Forty-six  AFFIRMATIONS.  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

she  does.  She  has  always  told  us  that  we  were  delicate — that  we 
could  not  stand  what  other  girls  could,  that  we  must  take  extra  care 
of  our  health,  as  we  were  not  strong..  She  has  always  tried  to  lead 
us  to  expect  ill  health,  instead  of  being  well.  I  always  laughed  at  it 
and  said,  *  Nonsense !  I  can  stand  what  others  can !  Nothing  hurts 
me !  I  'm  strong — as  strong  as  anyone. '  But  poor  Rose — she  listened 
to  Mother,  and  believed  all  she  said — and  look  at  Rose  today,  lying 
in  bed,  unable  to  walk,  having  to  be  waited  on.  And  Mother  waits 
on  her  and  poors  her  and  treats  her  like  a  baby  and  tit  inks  she  is 
doing  the  best  thing  for  her." 

How  many  mothers  are  doing  the  same  thing — destroying  by 
their  suggestions  the  individuality  and  power  of  their  children,  by 
their  fondly-foolish  fears,  and  lack  of  knowledge  of  the  Laws  of 
Suggestion  ? 

Children  are  largely  subconscious  and  open  to  Suggestion.  They 
accept  much  that  is  said  by  those  whom  they  love  and  trust,  as  gos- 
pel truth.  So  they  learn  to  believe  themselves  constitutionally  weak 
and  subject  to  disease. 

The  writer  relates  these  incidents  from  the  fullness  of  an  aching 
heart.  It  comes  very  close  home  to  her,  as  she  saw  for  years  her  only 
brother  struggle  under  the  adverse  suggestions  of  doctors  and  sup- 
posed friends,  who,  because  his  heart  action  was  weak  and  defective, 
constantly  kept  it  before  his  notice,  ever  alluding  to  his  health  and 


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relating  to  others,  in  his  presence,  that  his  heart  was  defective 
and-  that  he  could  never  get  well  as  it  was  deformed  or  mal-formed 
and  could  not  recover.  He  finally  succumbed  to  it,  after  a  weary 
struggle  and  a  constant  protest  that  he  could  be  better  if  people 
would  "leave  him  alone"  and  not  everlastingly  think  of  him  as 
unable  to  endure. 

To  urge  upon  another  that  he  is  ill,  that  he  cannot  recover  is 
positively  a  crime! 

The  writer  had  a  neighbor  who  had  cherished  a  secret  fear  of 
cancer,  because  her  mother  had  died  from  the  effects  of  cancer.  After 
living  in  an  adjoining  flat  for  a  year,  I  found  out  that  she  had  a 
tiny  lump  —  hardly  that  —  a  rough  spot  on  her  lower  lip,  so  small,  so 
insignificant  that  she  herself  was  the  only  one  who  knew  it.  She  had, 
at  the  time  of  this  occurrence,  a  brother  who  had  a  little  excrescence 
on  the  rim  of  one  ear;  and  as  he,  too,  lived  in  fear  of  cancer,  they 
went  to  see  a  doctor  about  it.  Her  husband  had  opposed  her  going, 
so  she  went  without  his  knowledge. 

When  shown  the  spot  on  her  lip,  the  doctor  said  very  impress- 
ively, '  '  That,  madam,  is  a  well-defined  cancer  !  '  '  That  night  she  wor- 
ried all  night,  walking  the  floor  most  of  the  night.  Next  day  when 
the  writer  heard  about  it,  she  told  her  she  did  not  believe  one  word 
of  it  —  that  she  had  seen  her  every  day  for  over  a  year  and  had  never 
even  noticed  the  spot  in  question  ;  that  doctors  do  not  always  know  — 


Forty-eight  AFFIRMATIONS.  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

that  they  often  make  mistakes — that  she  must  not  think  of  it  as  any- 
thing serious;  and  she  must  control  herself  and  stop  worrying  and 
use  her  judgment  about  it,  that  it  had  not  increased  in  size,  nor 
changed  in  appearance  in  a  year,  etc.,  etc. 

That  occurrence  'was  in  the  year  1904,  and  thirteen  years  later 
that  woman  was  enjoying  good  health  and  the  spot  on  her  lip  had 
never  enlarged  nor  given  her  any  trouble — in  fact  she  had  almost 
forgotten  it  herself. 

It  is  criminal  to  sow  seeds  like  that  in  the  minds  of  others. 

Never  allow  anyone  to  plant  in  your  Subconscious  a  suggestion 
that  is  detrimental.  If  someone  says  to  you  that  you  look  ill,  reply — 
verbally  or  mentally — I  am  not  ill.  I  am  quite  well !  Because  the  / 
of  you  which  you  speak  of  as  /  is  always  well — being  Spirit  it 
cannot  be  sick.  If  someone  says  that  you  look  tired,  just  reply  that 
it  does  not  matter,  as  you  can  easily  rest ;  or  else,  plainly  say,  /  am 
not  tired.  If  my  body  is  tired,  it  will  soon  become  rested.  Of  course 
that  is  likely  to  involve  you  in  an  argument,  but  probably  it  is  good 
that  you  argue.  It  will  help  you  to  more  clearly  understand — every 
time  you  have  to  explain  your  position  to  another. 

So  do  not  hesitate  to  defend  your  position.  There  are  so  many 
who  delight  in  trying  to  overthrow  one's  argument,  that  you  will 
have  to  learn  to  state  your  views,  sooner  or  later,  and  it  is  well  that 
you  learn  at  once.  When  onco  you  have  absorbed  those  ideas,  when 


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they  have  filtered  through  the  consciousness  into  the  Subconscious 
and  become  truth  to  you,  you  will  never  turn  back.  There  was  a 
time  when  you  learned  that  two  and  two  make  four.  You  know  it 
as  a  truth  and  never  can  you  un-know  it.  We  have  in  the  Scriptures 
this  promise  of  change  by  the  renewal  of  mind.  "Ye  are  changed 
by  the  renewing  of  your  mind." 

An  eminent  author  wrote  "Soul  is  form  and  doth  the  body 
make,  For  of  the  Soul  the  body  form  doth  take." 

The  fear  of  illness,  the  anxiety  about  their  health  seems  to  so 
engross  the  minds  of  the  majority  of  people,  that  the  principle  theme 
of  their  conversation,  wherever  they  assemble,  is  their  state  of  health ; 
someone's  operation;  the  doctor's  verdict  and  his  bill;  their  chief 
symptoms,  the  last  fever  they  had  and  what  was  done  for  them,  etc., 
etc.  And  again,  if  one  halts  near  a  group ;  especially  so  if  of  elderly 
persons,  one  hears  remarks  like  the  following,  "Well,  I  get  around 
pretty  well,  considering  my  age."  Don't  you  think  I'm  holding  my 
<> ten  pretty  well?"  "I'm  not  so  spry  as  I  used  to  be,  but  that's  to 
be  cx/H'clcd  at  my  lime  of  life,'  etc.,  etc. 

No  wonder  they  grew  old.  No  wonder  their  joints  stiffen — they 
expect  it.  What  one  believeth  in  his  heart  is  sure  to  externalize  in 
hodihi  conditions.  Why  not  think  of  something  else?  Why  not  talk 
health,  instead  of  disease?  Why  not  thrill  the  body  and  vibrate  the 


Fifty  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

nerves,  and  chemicalize  the  body-substance  with  hope,  and  expecta- 
tion of  good  conditions'? 

Every  thought,  every  word,  makes  its  mark  on  the  outer  expres- 
sion. Why  does  one  look  cross  when  he  is  angry?  Because  he  think* 
cross  and  feels  mad  and  vibrates  his  body  accordingly.  And  it  leaves 
its  mark.  It  externalizes.  If  one  is  a  grouch,  he  shows  it  in  his 
walk,  in  his  carriage,  in  the  very  way  he  wears  his  hat,  and  treads 
his  shoes.  Not  only  does  his  scowl  abash  you,  his  growl  chills  you ; 
and  you  feel  like  getting  out  of  his  neighborhood — or  swearing  back. 
His  whole  person  is  permeated  and  poisoned  by  his  thought-atmos- 
phere, and  everyone  hates  to  see  him  approach.  He  knows  and  feels 
it,  and  in  time  the  pressure  upon  his  own  system  will  cause  his  body 
to  refuse  to  go,  and  to  topple  into  the  grave.  "As  a  man  thinketh 
in  his  heart,  so  is  he!" 

The  writer  knew  this  incident  as  a  fact.  One  of  her  acquain- 
tance became  so  alarmed  through  the  remarks  of  another  woman, 
who  told  her  that  she  looked  ill,  that  she  actually  went  into  a  sani- 
tarium for  treatment,  at  an  expense  which  she  could  ill  afford,  from 
fear  that  she  might  get  down  sick  in  the  apartment  where  she  lived. 
Another,  a  friend  of  the  writer,  has  recently  been  pestered  almost 
beyond  endurance  by  another  woman,  in  her  lodging  house,  who  tells 
her  every  day  how  miserable  she  looks  and  says,  "O,  if  I  could  only 
get  you  to  call  my  doctor!  lie  would  do  wonders  for  you."  The 


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friend  in  question,  who  has  not  been  very  strong,  because  of  over- 
doing in  the  nursing  of  two  members  of  her  family,  and  their  deaths, 
has  had  difficulty  to  keep  from  breaking  down  under  this  persistent 
adverse  suggestion.  By  the  writer's  help,  through  the  renewing  of 
her  mind,  she  has  succeeded  in  overcoming  and  is  now  very  well. 
Be  careful  what  you  say!  As  the  1  am  the  Self  of  me  has  always 
existed — as  it  has  always  been — as  it  had  no  beginning  and  will  have 
no  end ;  and  as  my  body  as  a  whole,  undergoes  complete  change — 
complete  and  entire  renewal — with  the  exception  of  the  enamel  of 
the  teeth — within  less  than  one  year,  then  of  a  truth,  I  hare  no  age. 
If  I  have  no  age,  then  verily  /  am  youth.  Then  it  appears  that  I 
should  put  forth  or  manifest  youth  in  my  expression.  Having  ar- 
rived at  this  conclusion,  then  comes  the  question  why  do  people  show 
evidence  of  age?  Replying  to  this  question,  I  should  say  it  comes 
of  the  race  belief,  the  settled  and  almost  universally  prevalent  be- 
lief, handed  down  from  bygone  generations,  who  did  not  think  re- 
garding these  things;  but,  who,  like  sheep,  followed  without  question; 
and  dreaded  and  feared  and  expected  and  constantly  affirmed  sick- 
Hfxx,  old  age  and  death.  Who  has  not  heard  remarks  like  the  follow- 
ing while  standing  near  a  group  of  people  who  are  thinking  of  them- 
selves and  others,  as  growing  old?  I  am  getting  old  and  all  stiffened 
up,  but  at  my  age,  I  must  expect  that.  Expect  it,  mind  you!  No 
wonder  it  comes  to  him  !  "Don't  you  think  T  get  around  pretty  well. 


Fifty-two  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

considering  my  age?"  There  it  is  again — a  case  of  those  conditions 
being  expected.  "The  doctor  says  I  must  not  expect  to  get  well,  at 
my  age."  If  he  does  not  expect,  he  won't.  It  is  the  constant  topic 
of  conversation,  and  with  few  exceptions,  the  belief,  the  expectation 
voiced,  is  that  one  must  fail  as  the  years  go  by,  and  "enjoy"  old  age 
and  decrepitude.  If  one  has  his  own  teeth,  everyone  exclaims  about 
it  in  wonder.  If  one  can  read  without  glasses,  he  occasions  remarks 
of  surprise — even  in  some  instances  of  scorn,  as  "You'd  better  put 
on  your  glasses  to  do  that."  It  is  always  expected  of  us  that  we 
grow  old  and  ugly,  gray  and  bald,  toothless  and  decrepit.  And  what- 
soever a  man  thinketh  in  his  heart"  is  going  to  show  forth  in  the 
body  he  builds. 

Whatsoever  I  really  and  truly  think  of  myself — that  I  am  bound 
to  externalize.  So  I  do  not  dare  think  negative  thoughts,  injurious 
thoughts,  weakening  thoughts,  lest  I  objectify  or  externalize,  express 
or  manifest  them  in  the  structure  that  /  am  all  the  time  building. 
It  is  not  optional  with  me  whether  or  not  I  build  my  body.  If  I  stay 
in  a  body  I  have  to  rebuild  that  body,  whether  I  want  tj  or  not.  But 
it  is  optional  with  me,  whether  or  not  I  build  in  good  conditions — 
whether  I  vibrate  my  body-substance  with  the  right  kind  of  thoughts, 
as  I  rebuild. 

It  is  a  fact  that  I  cannot  think  two  different  thoughts  at  once. 
So  I  can  be  careful  to  think  the  right  kind  of  thought,  to  the  excin- 


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sion  of  any  other;  and  thus  vibrate  my  body-substance  at  will,  to 
produce  good  conditions  in  building. 

So  my  physical  condition  is  a  matter  of  my  own  creation.  If  7 
am  dissatisfied  with  it  /  am  the  one  who  can  alter  it.  So  my  body- 
building is  in  my  own  hands. 

The  Subconscious  reasons  deductively.  It  is  the  store  house  of 
memory,  receives  and  holds  all  impressions,  all  knowledge — never 
forgets;  but  does  not  reason,  save  deductively.  It  will,  if  it  receives 
an  impression,  go  on,  indefinitely,  objectifying  that  impression.  So 
do  not  put  into  words  your  age,  unless  you  wish  to  grow  old,  as  fast 
as  the  Subconscious  can  build  you.  If  you  say  I  am  forty  years  old, 
or  fifty,  or  sixty,  or  seventy,  or  eighty,  your  Subconscious  will  make 
your  words  come  true.  It  will  objectify  in  flesh  and  blood  and  bones 
j H si  u'hat  you  say.  So  be  careful  of  your  words. 

The  following  is  a  well  known  incident,  long  since  published  in 
annals  of  the  medical  fraternity,  viz. :  A  sixteen-year-old  bride  to  be, 
rn  her  wedding  day,  clad  in  bridal  robes,  awaited  the  coming  of  her 
lover  who  was  accidentally  killed  on  his  way  to  be  married.  The 
terrible  news  so  shocked  her  as  to  cause  insanity,  and  from  that  day 
she  lived  on  day  by  day,  week  by  week,  month  by  month,  year  by 
year,  always  expecting  her  lover — ever  at  her  window,  robed  in  bridal 
array,  expectantly  smiling  and  waiting  for  him  to  come.  She  had 
no  sense  of  time  beyond  that  one  day;  no  sense  of  anything  but  the 


Fifty-four  AFFIRMATIONS,  STATEMENTS,  ETC. 

one  all-engrossing  event.  So  she  ever  smiled  as  she  awaited  his  com- 
ing and  at  seventy-six  she  had  the  same  unchanged  girlish  face  and 
form.  To  all  appearances  she  was  still  sixteen. 

Prof.  Elmer  Gates  of  Washington,  D.  C.,  experimented  with  men 
to  ascertain  the  effect  of  different  emotions  upon  the  physical  body. 
He  had  them  breathe  through  a  glass  tube  packed  in  ice,  so  the 
breath  would  be  condensed.  If  a  person  of  normal  mind  breathed 
into  the  tube,  there  would  be  no  precipitation;  but  make  that  person 
angry,  and  in  five  minutes  after  he  had  breathed  into  the  tube,  there 
would  be  a  brown  powder  precipitated.  Prof.  Gates  proved  that  an- 
ger, malice,  hate  and  fear  produce  chemical  changes  in  the  body  that 
are  poisonous.  He  gave  this  powder  to  animals  and  also  to  people, 
and  watched  its  effect.  It  produced  in  both  a  condition  of  irritation 
and  excitement.  Jesus  says,  "This  is  life  eternal,  to  know  life;" 
therefore,  one  having  a  correct  knowledge  of  the  powers  of  adhesion, 
cohesion,  attraction,  of  gravitatioji,  of  growth,  will  be  environed  by 
life.  It  becomes  a  power  within  him,  and  it  is  a  power  surrounding 
him.  "I  in  the  Father  and  the  Father  in  me." 

Prof.  Gates  says,  "Bad  and  unpleasant  feelings  create  harmful 
chemical  products  in  the  body,  which  are  physically  injurious.  Good, 
pleasant,  cheerful  feelings  create  beneficial  chemical  products  which 
are  physically  healthful.  These  products  may  be  detected  by  chemi- 
cal analysis,  in  perspiration  and  secretions  of  the  individual.  More 


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than  forty  of  the  good  and  as  many  of  the  bad  have  been  detected. 
Suppose  six  men  in  a  room ;  one  feels  depressed,  another  remorseful, 
another  ill-tempered,  another  jealous,  another  cheerful  and  benevo- 
lent. Samples  of  their  perspiration  are  given  to  a  psycho-physicist. 
He  can  detect  all  these  emotions  distinctly,  and  unmistakably.  There 
is  a  corresponding  chemical  change  in  the  body,  which  is  life-depress- 
ing and  poisonous.  Every  good  emotion  makes  a  life-promoting 
change.  Every  thought  is  registered.  How  long  does  it  take  a  thought 
to  register? 

How  long  does  it  take  a  thought  to  externalize? 

Watching  the  faces  of  people  in  conversation,  we  may  see  their 
thoughts  fairly  rippling  over  their  faces  in  accord  with  their  humor 
— whether  they  are  pleased  or  displeased.  Individuals  vary  in  the 
rapidity  with  which  they  receive  and  register;  but  even  in  those  of 
slow  vibrations,  thought  is  marvelously  quick. 

Notice  when  cne  is  angered,  it  does  not  take  long  for  the  thought 
to  manifest,  as  an  expression  of  displeasure.  It  may  take  quite  a 
long  time  to  externalize  in  eradicating  a  habit  of  long  standing  in 
body-renewal.  With  some,  habit  is  harder  to  eradicate  than  with 
others. 

The  beauty  cf  it  is,  that  a  seed  thought  once  caught  by  the 
Subconscious,  goes  on  germinating  and  growing  while  the  conscious 


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mind  wakes,  sleeps,  is  otherwise  occupied  and  entirely  forgets  the 
thought  sown. 

The  writer  will  cite  an  instance  in  evidence  of  this:  At  the  age 
of  ten  or  eleven  in  trying  to  hold  a  strong,  frightened  cat,  which  no 
one  else  had  ever  captured,  her  left  arm  was  deeply  torn  from  the 
base  of  the  thumb  to  the  elbow — one  long,  deep  scratch  which  laid 
the  flesh  open.  It  healed,  leaving  a  scar  the  whole  length  that  was 
as  heavy  as  a  twine  string  and  about  as  white.  This  she  accepted 
as  belonging  to  her,  for  all  of  forty  years.  One  day  she  happened 
to  think  as  she  noticed  the  scar,  ' '  wonder  why  I  build  that  ?  I  don 't 
want  it.  It  is  neither  useful  nor  ornamental  and  I  will  not  have  it. 
I  refuse  to  keep  that  scar.  It  can  not  build  there  any  longer.  I 
will  refuse  it  nourishment.  She  then  addressed  the  scar  thus.  "You've 
got  to  go!  Now  git!"  She  then  forgot  about  it.  Paid  no  more  at- 
tention to  it  for  some  months,  possibly  a  year,  when,  she  must  ac- 
knowledge, to  her  surprise,  it  had  grown  shorter — that  is,  it  had  dis- 
appeared from  both  ends  and  only  the  middle  was  visible;  since 
which  the  portion  left  has  gradually  shortened,  until  she  can,  herself, 
with  difficulty  discern  a  very  faint  two-inch  length  of  scar.  In  this 
especial  instance,  she  hardly  considered  that  she  was  giving  a  treat- 
ment; she  was  more  in  jest  than  in  earnest,  and  did  not  even  recog- 
nize that  she  could  eradicate  a  scar — especially  one  of  so  long  stand- 
ing. However,  she  has  since,  in  less  time,  completely  dene  away 


/  JIM  BODY  RENEWAL  /  JIM  Fifty-seven 

with  several  others,  but  with  more  attention  and  repeated  efforts. 
One,  the  sca-r  of  a  burn  of  perhaps  ten  years'  standing,  left,  leaving 
no  evidence  of  its  ever  having  been,  inside  of  three  months.  While 
relating  this,  it  may  be  well  to  add  that  she  has  repeatedly  overcome 
serious  burns  by  insisting  that  she  will  not  be  burned.  In  two  in- 
stances she  has  overcome  very  serious  burns,  once  in  case  of  her  pick- 
ing up  a  kettle  full  of  boiling  substance,  beans  or  fruit,  by  a  bail 
which  had  been  in  the  flame  on  a  gasoline  stove.  As  the  liquid  was 
'boiling,  she  dared  not  drop  it,  but  waited  to  set  it  down.  It  left  a 
hollow  where  the  bail  lay  across  her  fingers.  She  treated  it  by 
thought  and  by  the  spoken  word.  After  the  first  pang,  there  was  no 
hurt  and  there  was  no  evidence  of  a  burn  left.  Another  time,  she 
attempted  to  pour  boiling  fat  from  a  frying  pan  into  a  small  can, 
held  in  fingers  of  left  hand,  and  deluged  her  whole  hand  with  the 
boiling  fat.  Within  five  minutes  the  pain  was  gone,  and  it  left  no 
mark  on  the  hand.  Nothing  was  done  in  either  case,  excepting  to 
use  her  thought  with  the  recognition  that  she  was  drawing  her  power 
to  heal  from  the  one  great  Source — the  Infinite. 

In  photography  it  does  not  take  long  to  make  an  image. 

The  plate  is  sensitized  by  being  submitted  to  a  solution  com- 
posed of  Collodion  or  Gelatine  (in  early  times  white  of  egg  was  used), 
and  Nitrate  of  Silver  or  Chlorides;  1 -2000th  part  of  a  second's  expos- 
ure was  enough  to  catch  and  register  the  image,  although  at  first  the 


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photographer  himself  could  not  see  it  was  there,  though  latent. 
In  each  individual  Soul  is  the  latent  image  of  the  Almighty. 

Spirit  directs  me. 

Spirit  enfolds. 

Spirit  protects  me. 

Spirit  upholds. 
Spirit  enlightens. 

Spirit  defends. 

Spirit  illumines. 

Spirit  befriends. 


Fifty-nine 


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JESSIE  MILLARD  ENGLISH 

As  I  lie  at  ease  in  my  hammock, 

Rocked  by  the  gentle  breeze, 
And  look  at  the  skies'  cerulean, 

Through  the  waving  boughs  of  the  trees, 
Each  leaf,  as  it  flutters  and  rustles 

And  dips,  with  a  friendly  nod, 
Seems  telling  to  me  a  message 

Of  the  oneness  of  all  with  God. 

And  a  message  comes  in  whispers 

From  the  field  of  corn  nearby, 
And  notes  sound  out  from  the  corn  leaves 

As  the  breeze  goes  whirling  high. 
I  list  to  a  whole  field  of  wind-harps  ; 

And  I  fancy  as  they  nod 
That  I  hear  in  soft  refrain  from  them 

"The  oneness  of  all,  with  God." 


Sixty  THE  ONENESS  OF  ALL  WITH  GOD 


The  palm  trees ;  in  solemn  grandeur, 

Lift  their  leaves,  like  hands,  in  prayer. 
The  scent  of  the  rich-hued  roses 

Hangs  on  the  vibrant  air. 
As  the  grasses  bend  and  rustle, 

And  softly  sigh  and  nod, 
I'm  sure  I  hear  them  whisper,  of 

The  oneness  of  all  with  God. 


A  humming  bird  hangs  poising, 

With  throat  and  breast  aglow, 
Above  the  honeysuckle  blooms, 

Whose  depths  he  longs  to  know. 
His  chirp  of  satisfaction 

I  interpret,  as  I  nod, 
To  mean  that  he  knows  his  oneness 

With  me — and  all,  and  God. 


THE  ONENESS  OF  ALL  WITH  GOD 


The  bees  come  near  me  buzzing — 

In  quest  of  their  nectared  fare. 
The  butterflies  float  o'er  me, 

On  the  jasmine-perfumed  air. 
A  hum  of  insect  toilers 

Is  rising  from  bush  and  sod. 
And  I  hear,  in  concerted  sweetness, 

"The  oneness  of  all  with  God." 


As  I  lie  here,  fanned  by  zephyrs, 

Swaying  under  the  trees, 
This  universal  chanson 

Comes  vibrating  on  the  breeze. 
The  mocking  bird  is  singing 

While  from  sky  and  tree  and  sod, 
The  anthem  sweet  comes  ringing — 

"The  oneness  of  all  with  God." 


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